Recent Scholarship
Religion
Bagley, Will, “‘Except as a Friend,’ Wallace Stegner among the Mormons,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 78 (Spring 2010), 100–117.
Bennett, Richard E., “‘Read This I Pray Thee’: Martin Harris and the Three Wise Men of the East,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 178–216.
Boaz, Danielle, “Religious Reparations from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Forming Demons, Cults, and Zombies to Justify Black Enslavement,” St. Thomas Law Review, 20 (Spring 2008), 604–21.
Borneman, Amanda Midgley, “Mormon Rosies: Women and War Work in Manti,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 73–91.
Callahan, Richard J., Jr., Kathryn Lofton, and Chad E. Seales, “Allegories of Progress: Industrial Religion in the United States,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 78 (March 2010), 1–39.
Canipe, Lee, “Can a Baptist Be President? Jimmy Carter and the Possibility That John Smyth Might Have Been Right after All,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Spring 2008), 277–97.
Esbeck, Carl H., “Protestant Dissent and the Virginia Disestablishment, 1776–1786,” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 7 (Winter 2009), 51–104.
Freeman, Curtis W., “All the Sons of Earth: Carlyle Marney and the Fight against Prejudice,” Baptist History & Heritage, 44 (Spring 2009), 71–84.
Gross, Robert A., “‘Doctor Ripley’s Church’: Congregational Life in Concord, Massachusetts, 1778–1841,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 33 (2009–2010), 1–37.
Hall, Taffey, “Saving Grace: Baptist Archives and Historical Collections in North America,” Baptist History & Heritage, 44 (Spring 2009), 31–46.
Hughes, Lynn Gordon, “Orestes A. Brownson, Universalist Infidel?,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 33 (2009–2010), 38–85.
Laats, Adam, “Forging a Fundamentalist ‘One Best System’: Struggles over Curriculum and Educational Philosophy for Christian Day Schools, 1970–1989,” History of Education Quarterly, 50 (Feb. 2010), 55–83.
Lewis, Michael, “Keeping Sin from Sacred Spaces: Southern Evangelicals and the Socio-legal Control of Alcohol, 1865–1915,” Southern Cultures, 15 (Summer 2009), 40–60.
Mehrotra, Ajay K., “‘Render unto Caesar . . . ’: Religion/Ethics, Expertise, and the Historical Underpinnings of the Modern American Tax System,” Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 40 (Winter 2009), 321–67.
Miller, Robert T., “Religious Conscience in Colonial New England,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Autumn 2008), 661–76.
Mills, Frederick V., Sr., “Granville Sharp and the Creation of an American Episcopate: Ordo Episcoporum Est Robur Ecclesiae,” Anglican and Episcopal History, 79 (March 2010), 34–58.
Morgan, Brandon, “From Brutal Ally to Humble Believer: Mormon Colonists’ Image of Pancho Villa,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85 (Spring 2010), 109–29.
Nartonis, David K., “Samuel Barrett Stewart, the Essex Conference, and the Remaking of American Unitarianism, 1865–1892,” Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 33 (2009–2010), 86–108.
Newman, Stephen A., “From John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Campaign Speech to Christian Supremacy: Religion in Modern Presidential Politics,” New York Law School Law Review, 53 (no. 4, 2008–2009), 691–733.
Park, Benjamin E., “‘Build, Therefore, Your Own World’: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, and Antebellum American Thought,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 41–72.
Petigny, Alan, “The Spread of Permissive Religion,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 4, 2009), 399–422.
Schultz, Kevin M., and Paul Harvey, “Everywhere and Nowhere: Recent Trends in American Religious History and Historiography,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 78 (March 2010), 129–62.
Schurb, Ken, “The Service of Women in Congregational Offices, 1969 to 2007,” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Fall 2009), 147–69.
Shepard, John W., Jr., “The European Background of American Freedom,” Journal of Church and State, 50 (Autumn 2008), 647–59.
Shepard, William, and H. Michael Marquardt, “Lyman E. Johnson: Forgotten Apostle,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 93–144.
Sklarin, Yigal, “‘Rushing in Where Angels Fear to Tread’: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the Rabbinical Council of America, Modern Orthodox Jewry, and the Second Vatican Council,” Modern Judaism, 29 (Oct. 2009), 351–85.
Splitter, Wolfgang, “The Fact and Fiction of Cotton Mather’s Correspondence with German Pietist August Hermann Francke,” New England Quarterly, 83 (March 2010), 102–28.
Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, “Dr. C. F. W. and Emilie Walther: The Recollections of Margarete Lenk (1911),” Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly, 82 (Fall 2009), 170–83.
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, “An American Album, 1857,” American Historical Review, 115 (Feb. 2010), 1–25.
Walker, Kyle R., “‘As Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: Ebenezer Robinson, Don Carlos Smith, and the 1840 Edition of the Book of Mormon,” Journal of Mormon History, 36 (Winter 2010), 1–40.
Young, Ralph F., “Breathing the ‘Free Aire of the New World’: The Influence of the New England Way on the Gathering of Congregational Churches in Old England, 1640–1660,” New England Quarterly, 83 (March 2010), 3–46.
Adams, Ronald W., “A History of the Conversation on the Ordination of Women in the Lancaster Mennonite Conference” (Lancaster Theological Seminary, United States, 2009). Order No. DA3361038.
Albrecht, Michael Jerome, “The Faith-Life Legacy of a Wauwatosa Theologian: Prof. John Ph. Koehler, Exegete, Historian, and Musician” (Luther Seminary, United States of America, 2008). Order No. DA3360824.
Andrews, Edward E., “Prodigal Sons: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Atlantic World, 1640–1780” (University of New Hampshire, 2009). Order No. DA3363710.
Baldwin, Eric, “Religion and the American Industrial City: Protestant Culture and Social Transformation in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1824–1890” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3363596.
Bennett, Laura Marie, “Equal Privilege of Service: Women, Missions, and Suffrage in America, 1870–1934” (Princeton University, 2009). Order No. DA3364529.
Brandt, Lauren Elizabeth, “‘Social Intercession’: The Religious Nature of Public Activism among American Women Reformers in Boston, 1892 to 1930” (Harvard University, 2009). Order No. DA3365207.
Burns, Dave, “The Radical Rites of Christ: Jesus and the Social Revolutions of Progressive Era America” (Northern Illinois University, 2009). Order No. DA3359004.
Graybill, Beth E., “Amish Women, Business Sense: Old Order Women Entrepreneurs in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Tourist Marketplace” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359377.
Haggler, Patricia, “‘Remember’ the Sabbath: African-American Sunday Schools, Education, Activism, and Community Building in the South, 1890–1954” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3361971.
Hardin, John C., “Common Cause: B. C. Goodpasture, the ‘Gospel Advocate,’ and Churches of Christ in the Twentieth Century” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365539.
Harlow, Luke Edward, “From Border South to Solid South: Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830–1880” (Rice University, 2009). Order No. DA3362238.
Hinojosa, Felipe, “Making Noise among the ‘Quiet of the Land’: Mexican American and Puerto Rican Ethno-religious Identity in the Mennonite Church, 1932–1982” (University of Houston, 2009). Order No. DA3361444.
Jeffries, Bayyinah Sharief, “‘A Nation Can Rise No Higher than Its Women’: The Critical Role of Black Muslim Women in the Development and Purveyance of Black Consciousness, 1945–1975” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3363987.
Jortner, Adam, “Reign of Witches: A Political History of American Miracles, 1780–1840” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3362839.
Lechtreck, Elaine Allen, “Southern White Ministers and the Civil Rights Movement” (Union Institute, 2008). Order No. DA3360933.
Luft, Shanny, “The Devil’s Church: Conservative Protestantism and the Movies” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3355651.
McCollum, David C., “A Study of Evangelicals and Revival Exercises from 1730–1805: Tracing the Development of Exercise Traditions through the First Great Awakening Period to the Southern Great Revival” (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2009). Order No. DA3364780.
Moore, Wilfred Arnett, “Wyatt Tee Walker: Theologian, Civil Rights Activist, and Former Chief of Staff to Martin Luther King Jr.” (Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Theology, 2009). Order No. DA3358142.
Moyer, Jonathan H., “Dancing with the Devil: The Making of the Mormon-Republican Pact” (University of Utah, 2009). Order No. DA3362688.
Murphy, Kyle Stephen, “Eleven Revolutionary Sermons Preached on Fast Days, 1775–1776, by Rev. Isaiah Dunster of Harwich” (Boston University, 2009). Order No. DA3363628.
Newman, Jennifer Ann, “Writing, Religion, and Women’s Identity in Civil War Alabama” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365555.
Nieto, Adriana P., “From ‘Black-Eyed Girls’ to the mmu (Mujeres Metodistas Unidas): Race, Religion, and Gender in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” (University of Denver, 2009). Order No. DA3366177.
Pavuk, Alexander, “Progressively Turning Human Origins Discourse on Its Head: Science, Religion, and Liberal Catholic Irony in the American Public Square, 1899–1939” (University of Delaware, 2009). Order No. DA3360251.
Robey, Molly K., “Sacred Geographies: Religion, Race, and the Holy Land in U.S. Literature, 1819–1920” (Rice University, 2009). Order No. DA3362392.
Robles, Erica Reyna, “Mediating Eternity: The Crystal Cathedral and God’s Place in a Network World” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA336448.
Rygiel, Mary Ann, “Representations of Catholicism in American Literature, 1820–1920” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365561.
Shelton, Kenneth Andrew, “The Way Cast Up: The Keithian Schism in an English Enlightenment Context” (Boston College, 2009). Order No. DA3360144.
Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, “‘The Sad Tendency of Division and Contention in Churches’: Church Schism, Ecclesiastical Discord, and Clergy Dismissal in Colonial New England” (University of Houston, 2009). Order No. DA3361450.
Taylor, William Harrison, “‘One Body and One Spirit’: Presbyterians, Interdenominationalism, and the American Revolution” (Mississippi State University, 2009). Order No. DA3366248.
Weiner, Isaac A., “Religion Out Loud: Religious Sound, Public Space, and American Pluralism” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3366462.
Weir, Heather Elizabeth, “Teaching the Bible with Sarah Trimmer” (Wycliffe College, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR48718.
Westmoreland, Charles Raymond, Jr., “Southern Pharisees: Prayer, Public Life, and Politics in the South, 1955–1996” (University of Mississippi, 2008). Order No. DA3361208.
Willis, Stuart Davis, “‘Left to Themselves, the Cherokee Would Become a Prosperous, Independent Commonwealth, and Would Never Sell Their Lands’: Cherokees, Slaves, and Moravians at Springplace Mission, Georgia, 1799–1838” (Michigan State University, 2009). Order No. DA3364766.
Green, John C., The Faith Factor: How Religion Influences American Elections. (Dulles: Potomac, 2010. xviii, 222 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-59797-430-1.) Originally published in 2007.
Harrell, David Edwin, Jr., Pat Robertson: A Life and Legacy. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010. xiv, 442 pp. $29.99, isbn 978-0-8028-6384-3.)
Hurst, Charles E., and David L. McConnell, An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World’s Largest Amish Community. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. xviii, 356 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9398-8. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8018-9399-5.)
Kilde, Jeanne Halgren, Nature and Revelation: A History of Macalester College. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xii, 400 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5626-4. Paper, isbn 978-0-8166-5627-1.)
Lupkin, Paula, Manhood Factories: ymca Architecture and the Making of Modern Culture. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxvi, 253 pp. Cloth, $82.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4834-4. Paper, $27.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4835-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Smith, Brett H., Labor’s Millennium: Christianity, Industrial Education, and the Founding of the University of Illinois. (Eugene, Ore.: Pickwick, 2010. xii, 188 pp. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-1-60608-067-2.)
Carretta, Vincent, and Ty M. Reese, eds., The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010. xii, 219 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8203-3319-9.)
Quintard, Charles Todd, comp., The Confederate Soldier’s Pocket Manual of Devotions Including Balm for the Weary and the Wounded. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2009. xxiv,173 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 978-0-88146-175-6.)
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